Alberto Ezequiel Melián vs. Frency Fortunato Saya RBR.

This fight is really reminding me of Paez vs Grove I.

 

What's wrong with the name Alejandro?

 

Excellent scrap. Gonna keep an eye out for this Melian kid, very fun to watch IMO.

 

no matter how hard i try, i just cant root for melian, he is an incredibly dirty fighter to the point you can say the headbutt is his signature punch. at least he has a guard now, i remember back in his amateur days and early pros he would try to emulate maravilla, thats how akmadaliev ktfo in the olympics. i think this is his ceiling though, win some and lose some against continental level fighters.

 

I was surprised, that Saya was that good. His record looked like Melians team was looking for an easy opponent with undefeated record. But he looked really good in the first 5 rounds.

I had more the impression, that Saya was the dirty fighter. A lot of holding, when he got tired.

 

Saya was the promoters fighter, it was a gardner payne card, the first event he had in argentina. Of course the judges didnt care a bit about this and favoured the argentinians.

yeah saya was just exhausted in the second half of the fight, but in the first half melian landed a ton of headbutts and would constantly pull saya down in order to tire him more, mind that he does this same thing in all of his fights.

 

Okay, thats interesting. I thought this was a tune up fight for Melian which did not turn out as easy as expected.